Morrow Street during one of four floods in 1891. On the left is the Council Chambers building which was completed in 1888. Picture: Gormly Collection CSURA RW98.25
In January 1891, at the Company Bridge (this is the bridge that was replaced by the Hampden Bridge in 1895), the river was almost a kilometre wide. The carcasses of animals drowned on the Gundagai flats were seen floating past.
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